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  • 8086/8088 Coherent.

    From frasc@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 3 12:00:23 2019
    Hi all,

    I have been browsing through the Mark Williams Company sources, that have been open sourced by the copyright owner, Bob Swartz. Thanks Bob! :-)

    The following directory caught my eye:
    relic/d/kernel/USRSRC/i8086

    They were comments in the like of:

    * COHERENT Version 2.3.37
    * 8086/8088 Coherent.
    * IBM PC.

    Is anyone aware of an early version 2.x and if so, is a binary version still existing somewhere ?

    Or, is there a way to somehow rebuild it ? The top directory "relic" leads me to believe that, if at all possible, it'd take a huge effort to revive it. So before starting to dive deeper, I'm just asking the group if anyone knows about it.

    Thanks all

    --Frederic

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to frasc on Mon Jun 3 13:43:34 2019
    On Monday, June 3, 2019 at 9:00:23 PM UTC+2, frasc wrote:

    The following directory caught my eye:
    relic/d/kernel/USRSRC/i8086

    They were comments in the like of:

    * COHERENT Version 2.3.37
    * 8086/8088 Coherent.
    * IBM PC.

    Is anyone aware of an early version 2.x and if so, is a binary version still existing somewhere ?

    These are the 8086 kernel sources for release 2.x. The binary objects are in USRSYS. This is
    kernel, driver and config stuff only, not a complete system and there are no distribution disks
    for this version one could install a system from.

    Or, is there a way to somehow rebuild it ? The top directory "relic" leads me to believe that,
    if at all possible, it'd take a huge effort to revive it.

    One could use a 286 system to rebuild the 8086 system from sources, would be some work though.

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  • From frasc@21:1/5 to Udo Munk on Mon Jun 3 17:00:58 2019
    It's probably not worth the effort to produce just a kernel without all of the supporting utils and other stuff, but that was intriguing.

    Thanks Udo !!!


    On Monday, June 3, 2019 at 1:43:35 PM UTC-7, Udo Munk wrote:
    On Monday, June 3, 2019 at 9:00:23 PM UTC+2, frasc wrote:

    The following directory caught my eye:
    relic/d/kernel/USRSRC/i8086

    They were comments in the like of:

    * COHERENT Version 2.3.37
    * 8086/8088 Coherent.
    * IBM PC.

    Is anyone aware of an early version 2.x and if so, is a binary version still existing somewhere ?

    These are the 8086 kernel sources for release 2.x. The binary objects are in USRSYS. This is
    kernel, driver and config stuff only, not a complete system and there are no distribution disks
    for this version one could install a system from.

    Or, is there a way to somehow rebuild it ? The top directory "relic" leads me to believe that,
    if at all possible, it'd take a huge effort to revive it.

    One could use a 286 system to rebuild the 8086 system from sources, would be some work though.

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  • From Udo Munk@21:1/5 to frasc on Tue Jun 4 10:54:06 2019
    On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 2:00:59 AM UTC+2, frasc wrote:

    It's probably not worth the effort to produce just a kernel without all of the supporting
    utils and other stuff, but that was intriguing.

    No, with a kernel alone one can't do much. The tools also won't be a problem, when MWC
    started to work on 3.0 the latest sources from 2.x were checked into RCS to start from.
    But one also needs matching header files, a matching libc, don't know if these can be
    reproduced. Also don't know if the C compiler is suitable or if one needs to revert it to
    an older version. Probably it is possible to build a working 8086 COHERENT system,
    but it requires real work, and without trying one won't know how far one can get with
    the released sources. So still intriguing :)

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